Kanpur Spin: Will Ashwin turn it around for Dhoni?

Chennai off-spinner R Ashwin will play his 100th ODI when the first match of the India South Africa series gets started at Kanpur on Sunday. Despite the 0-2 loss in the three match T20 series, Dhoni has depended heavily on Ashwin who came away with figures of 1/26 and 3/24. Since the 2015 World Cup Down Under, the off-spinner has not only been India’s best bowler across all formats, he’s also emerged as an out-and-out match-winner with the ball. To his credit, Ashwin’s kept his form going in 2015, right through the tours of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, and has started off well against the might of the South Africans, says The Indian Express. Read the detailed story here. [caption id=“attachment_2309142” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Ravichandran Ashwin/ AFP[/caption] The Hindu newspaper too has a profile on the 29-year-old as India fight for pride and Dhoni regroups after a near whitewash in the T20. The Hindu report quotes Ashwin’s coach Sunil Subramanian saying that he reads the ball very well and has a precise idea of where the ball will travel off the bat. “This is a precious quality,” says Subramaniam. Read the full report here.